Where does kembster come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

kembster

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"A married woman who supplemented her family's income by brewing ale or combing wool for yarn would not have been identified in the records as a brewster or kembster."

From Middle English kembestere, kempstare, kemster, equivalent to kemb + -ster.

kembsters (plural) kempster (alternative)

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